To Kill A Mockingbird

Rereading To Kill a Mockingbird was even better than the first reading, possibly because I already knew the outcome of the trial and the aftermath. Knowing that left me free to enjoy the wit and charm with which Harper Lee tells the story. Or stories, as there are several interwoven in there all exposing discrimination and hypocrisy of various sorts but in a very palatable, even delightful way.

It is a interesting book so far and has a lot of tricky language that most of you children would have seen before, anyhow, I recommend this novel to older children 12+. I was recommended this book by my librarian at school who said 'I think that you should start challenging yourself and read books with more difficult language.' I took her advice and went to the local library to ask a kind librarian - 'Who wrote 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?' She replied saying that the author of this book was a American woman called Harper Lee. Apparently she passed away recently as my mum told me. Anyhow, I am up to the fourth page of this book and so far a nearly thirteen year old boy has broken his arm and it is healed, he is much older now and the novel explains that his previously broken arm is shorter than his good arm. he feels self - conscious about this but try to forget about it by remembering that at least he can still play football and his arm isn't a problem. My sister, mum and I are going camping next week so I wanted a book that would take me a while to read so that I wont get bored. My sister is a bit of a book worm. she likes to read books and always has one ready to read. I went to the library with her today, when I picked up my book, she collected some books as well which she is also going to read when we go camping, or rather caravanning ;D. I am looking forward to reading this book as my mum told me that her brother, my uncle, read it for his GCSE's. I fell proud to be reading such a highly rated book and will discuss more about this book with you when I get to at least the 50th page. Anyhow that is all I'm going to write for today, see you all soon
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I remembered reading this at school but when I reread it recently with my book club I was blow away. I loved it and became very engaged with all of the main characters and cared about what the book had in store for each of them.

nice book

I came across this book in a library and I bought it as my mother and father had read it when they were younger and they said it was "one of those books you have to read". Once I had started reading it, I couldn't stop. It tells the tale of a small county in Alabama called Maycomb. This small county is ripe with racism. There are three main families that live in this county; The Finches, the Radleys and the Ewells. The story is told through the eyes of a young girl called Jean-Louise Finch, or Scout for short. She is the sister of Jeremy Finch(Jem), and daughter of a wise lawyer called Atticus Finch, who is the defendant of a young black man called Tom Robinson. Tom has been accused of raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell, but everyone knows this man is innocent because the evidence is all there. The question is, will the judge and jury mend their ways, or will they kill a mockingbird and put an innocent man to death? Along with the main story, there are lots of other small stories, including a story about an old woman called Mrs Dubose, who seems horrible at first, but who's character is misunderstood, as you find out at the end. This is a very mature book and i would only recommend it to avid readers. In conclusion, To kill a Mockingbird is one of my all-time favourite books so i have given it 5 stars.

Excellent. Harper Lee is one of those rare writers who knows how children think. The novel shows the remarkable contrast between the view that pure and innocent children have of the world and the view that adults corrupted by "civilisation" have.
I strongly recommend it. Besides being a very intelligent novel, it is also very amusing.

Extremely well-written. It's a story which has become universal. A case is judged: a young black man is accused of the rape of a young woman. The pressure mounts for the defending lawyer and her family.

Amazing book! Very thought provoking and well written with believable characters. Could not put it down.